In a study conducted in New Zealand, scientists have found that vitamins A and C can help in the production of stem cells from adult cells. This would create many opportunities in treatment of diseases. Stem cells are proven to be beneficial in regenerative medicine. With these new discoveries about vitamins A and C, it can lead to improvements in other medical areas as well.
Key Takeaways:
- Vitamins A and C could improve the conversion of adult cells into stem cells, opening the way to advances in biomedical treatments for human diseases.
- Since the 2006 discovery that reprogramming was possible, there had been much interest in using induced embryonic stem cells to cure human disease.
- It turns out that vitamin A increases the number of these enzymes within the cell and vitamin C enhances their activity.
“Removal of this memory was critical in order to create a developmentally potent stem cell, or to change one kind of adult cell to another.”
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